Monday, May 23, 2005

When Pop Culture Obsession Goes Bad

This past winter, Kimlan Fong Wong and her boyfriend of several years, Anthony Taveras, stopped talking to each other for three days after she threw a vase at him during an argument. The subject: Jennifer Lopez.

"He kept calling her J. Ho," says Wong, a 29-year-old office manager and college student in Queens, who's originally from Trinidad & Tobago. "It was 'J. Ho this' and 'J. Ho that.' He knows I like her. I felt like he wasn't respecting me."

The Dish Recommends...

MoviesJesus Camp,
Idiocracy,
Idlewild,
Little Miss Sunshine,
TVThe Amazing Race,
American Dad,
Best Week Ever,
The Colbert Report,
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,
The Late Show With David Letterman,
Nip/Tuck,
Prison Break,
Project Runway,
Robot Chicken,
The Simpsons,
Survivor,
Weeds,
The Wire,
DVDGilmore Girls - Season 6,
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Season 2, Vol. 2,
My Name Is Earl - Season 1,
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Movie - Conqueror of Shamballa,
The Office - Season 2,
Stella - Season 1,
United 93,
Lost - Season 2,
Friends with Money,
Arrested Development - Season 3,
Nip/Tuck - Season 3,
South Park - Season 8,
The Simpsons - Season 8,
Veronica Mars - Season 2